Streetview in real streets

Ever thought about making your photos look like they're in Google Streetview? I'm sure we all have at some point. Well, too late. It's been done.

Cable Art

This is an art project by Riley Harmin.

Not much else to say, really.

Go Ogle

The series Go Ogle by photographer Meggan Gould takes the first 100 responses to a Google image search, then overlays those 100 images into a single photographic "average."

So this, as I'm sure you don't need me to tell you, is the Leaning Tower of Pisa:



Interesting project. The same effect can be achieved by going to Pisa and drinking the local grappa.

One Trillion Dollars

It wasn't long ago that the number 'trillion' was considered made up. You know, like gazillion. Well, what with all this economic kerfuffle going on, it has been brought to our attention as a real number after all.

In fact, I get confronted with the term 'trillion' every time I turn on the TV. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard it recently, I'd have enough to pay off the world's debts and thus no longer be confronted with the term 'trillion' every time I turn on the TV.

Anyway, it's no longer an unimaginably large number. You don't even need to imagine it, because here's a site that shows what a trillion dollars looks like (using Google Sketchup).




That's a person in the bottom left corner. This is quite an easy scene for Zimbabweans to imagine. This is what it looks like every time they buy a pint of milk.

Where on Earth is James Bond?

Most of us visit other parts of the world to laugh at the locals. Not so for Bond. James Bond. He visits other parts of the world to kill the locals. Now you can explore all the places he had a license to do so, on Google Earth.

Thematic Maps

Bjørn Sandvik has been creating some pretty shiny thematic maps stuff, based on Google Earth:







And here's a presentation on it:

Using KML for Thematic Mapping

View more presentations from Bjorn Sandvik.

Alice Through The YouTube Glass

Here's a pointlessly wonderful YouTube thing.

This is an Alice in Wonderland version (because Alice in Wonderland needs more kaleidoscopic surreality, right?), but you can create your own here.